Jonathan Goodwin

Freud on the Troilistic Enterprise

Sat Feb 5, 2005

As we may observe with children and soldiers, common activity is not
excluded even in the excretory functions. The one great exception is
provided by the sexual act, in which a third person is at best
superfluous and in the extreme case is condemned to a state of painful
expectancy.

Freud, Sigmund. Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. Trans.
and ed. James Strachey. New York: Norton, 1957. 54-55 n.3.